Ten Days… Ten Feet of Powder… Ten Days To Go till Return to Kirkwood!

Take all the best things of Scotland’s snowsport areas, the lift served off-piste of the Back Corries at Nevis, the cliff strewn, gully lined playground of Glencoe, the massive bowl like expanse of Coire Fionn, the steeps of the East and West Walls, natural gullies like Ciste, and like the Lecht and top of CairnGorm some of the best learning terrain around, oh and the rocks and snow fencing, throw in some trees and dump it on a 10,000ft mountain in California, add a T-bar to confuse the locals and you have Kirkwood!

Having come across numerous Scottish Skiers and Winterhighlander’s, during 2005 and 2006, one Glencoe regular put it like this “It’s like Meall a’ Bhuiridh on steroids with some trees thrown in”. Despite it being small in area in Alpine terms, there’s not a lot Kirkwood doesn’t have and it’s got something just a little bit special, a little bit wild and little bit different. Like Scotland, don’t expect the locals to run and hide when the sun goes in. Here a storm day = a powder day. A blizzard = a bigger powder day and a howling gale  = a powder day with fresh tracks every run!